Improvement in flax-brakes



demasiada;

JAMES BOYGE,` OF WOOs;TER,OH1O.

Letters .Patent No. 94,706, dated September 14, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FLAX-BRAKES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thecame.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES BoYcE, of'Wooster,in the county of Wayne, and State of Ohio, have invented a new anduseful Improvement'in FlaXfBrakes; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full,`clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.' y

. The'object of this invention is to provide, in'combination with theSanford .and Mallory flax-brake, a feeding-attachment, whereby crossedand tangled stalks may be, in a great measure, straightened and arrangedin the proper order for feeding into the said brake in the requiredlengthwise position.

The invention comprises the combination, with the said machine, of a setof' fluted-feeding-rollers, moving at a slower rate than the rollers ofthe said brake, and a broad dowmvard-inclining table, whereon theintermittent motion' imparted to the flax moving length wise andproperly, and with which the crossed and tangled stalks are mixed, bythe back and forward movement of' rollers ot' the brake, has the effectto straighten out and arrange the said crossed stalks, as hereinaftermore fully specified.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation'of a Sanford and Mallory brake indotted lines, and my improved attachment in full lines, and part-1ysectioned; and

I `igure2 represents a transverse sect-ion of my improvedfeeding-attachment.

VSimilar letters of' reference indicate corresponding parts.

The said Sanford 'and Mallory brake consists of three (more or less)pairs of tinted breaking-rollers@ arranged horizontally in a circularline around and above a driving-wheel common to all the said pairs, andhaving an intermittent forward and back movement, the back movementbeing materially less than the forward movement, so that the straw fedto it is carried through the machine.

The dotted lines at A, iig. 1, represent so much of this machine as itis necessary to show in this case, my improvement being only theattachment thereto of thedownWard-inclining feeding-table `B and thefeeding-rollers C, consisting of' two or more pairs of fluted rollers,arranged and operated in the usual way, but moving ata considerablylower rate of speed than the' resulting forward movement of the. rollersof the breaker. i

The straw is now commonly fed to the breakers by hand, and isnecessarily more or less crossed and tangled, which is veryobjectionable, as, before it can be scutched and cleaned, it must bearranged parallel together by hand, which is a slow and tedious process.

To remove this dilculty as much as possible, I have had recourse to theattachment `of' the said feedingrollers and inclined table, which I findaccomplishes the object, in a great measure, in this way:

The straw feeding through the rollers C, being held back by them againstthe intermittent pulling motion of the breaker-rollers while on theinclined table, and subject to the action of gravity, which prevents itfrom going back t thebackward motion of' the rollers, will have aforward impetus imparted to all those straws not lying straight,calculated'to bring them into lin'e with those moving straightly, to agreat extent.

The same result', but ina less degree, may be obtained with a horizontaltable; but owing to the better results when arranged in this way, Ipropose to arrange them in inclines` Having thus described my invention,l

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent-'- Thecombination, with the breaking-rollers, having an intermittent forwardand back movement, of a feeding-table, inclinirig downward. toward them,and feeding-rollers at the. higher end of the said table, suhstantiall yas` specified.

JAS. BOYGE.

Witnesses:

THOMAS HENRY, JAMES CosGRovE.

